Re: advice-- a friend claims he's under attack

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin justin cunningham quotation: > Hi, sorry for the dramatic subject; a guy with a server in my colo > called me saying his site and mail is down and he had trouble reaching > the box. He's sshed in now and says netstat -n shows lots of > established connections. I told him to kill them and s

Re: Gimp and GIF

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > Alan> Iirc, other distributions have a gif plugin which uses > Alan> libungif (ie, uncompressed and unencumbered by patents). > Alan> Any reason ours doesn't? > > I believe that's only for uncompressing gifs and displaying them. > Writing gifs i

Re: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael D. Crawford quotation: > Get memtest86. I was having some whacky problems on the PC I'm using right > this second, and memtest86 showed that I had some bad memory. I randomly > pulled one of the three memory modules and retested, and it passed the > test. It's been stable as a

Re: How to keep Woody update when not in stable release?

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Patrick Hsieh quotation: > > If the fixed packages of woody take a couple of days before dropping > into the official woody archive. Then my woody system will become > vulnerable in this period. I am kinda paranoid in this way? Your system doesn't "become vulnerable" the minute a patch is

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > > > Or mail it to Rick Moen. :-) > > Who? Go to Google. Type in "rick moen modem". Hit "I'm Feeling Lucky." -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199910/msg00981.html pgpbo4hjfDSC5.pgp Descripti

Re: debian.org down?

2002-05-02 Thread Shawn McMahon
I had problems with http.us.debian.org day before yesterday, and again today. apt-get update returns either "Error reading from server Remote end closed connection" on several of the gets, or it succeeds but takes forever, but the next one goes fast. Yesterday it was fine. The problem is happeni

Re: rlogin without a password

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Dougie Nisbet quotation: > This used to be a piece of cake, but now in the Brave New SSH world, it's a > right royal pain. All I want to do, is switch on my laptop, and remsh to my > server, without specifying a username or password. Can I do this with ssh, > and if not, how do I install

Re: Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin alex quotation: > > Most of the difficulties were with the winmodem. Some could not get the IMHO, this shouldn't deter anybody. This is a good enough price on these systems that you can pitch the winmodem in the trash (where it belongs) and throw on a real modem, and not miss the $10 you

Wal-Mart PCs revisited

2002-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
Here's the latest web report from somebody actually trying the Wal-Mart OSless PCs with Linux: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/04/29/0218241.shtml?tid=7 -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/debian-user-199910/msg00981.html pgpTGBfSlIgFZ.pgp Descript

Re: TCP: Treason uncloaked! . Anyone know this message?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin César Augusto Seronni Filho quotation: > I receive this message sometime in my dmesg: > TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 200.193.246.5:35295/110 shrinks window > 2694420037:2694420573. Repaired. > > Anyone know what this means? You have TCP debugging enabled. -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fa

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin craigw quotation: > > Anyway, every single day I get dozens of requests for things like > /MSADC/root.exe, winnt/system32/cmd.exe, etc, etc; all windows stuff & > therefore all failed requests. The typical thing is each IP will look > for about 15 things and then give up. Here's a typical e

Re: Install Realplayer???

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Leon quotation: > > Try this link: > http://service.real.com/downloads.html > > They've done a good job of hiding the links alright. They've done more than that; right now, they show "that version is not available" if you try to download any of the Linux versions. At least, for v8 and v7

Re: Windows 98 question.

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin infotechsys quotation: > I have a friend that has Windows 98 installed > on her computer and she can't remember her > password. Is there anyway that she can get > around this? Sure; she can erase the hard drive and install Debian. -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debia

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Robert_L quotation: > In addition to the other info given, for the location you can try: > http://www.xpenguin.com/ip-atlas.php > I got bored one day and set it up on my machine. You can try it out here if > you want: http://www.phebe.linux-site.net/plot/plot.php http://www.phebe.linux-si

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Jamin W. Collins quotation: > > > Know what you're doing before you portscan people. > > Very good advice. However, better yet is to have permission. I agree, with the caveat that I consider portscanning me to be permission. :-) -- Join the Sergio Brandano Fan Club: http://lists.debi

Re: Posting dangerous code (was Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg)

2002-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > Shawn's LART would purge all installed packages on a Debian system. Spoilsport. :-) Actually, I haven't tested it to see if it will really manage to purge them all. I suspect it will give at least one prompt, and probably manage to commit suicide before AL

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
time when I posted a similar procedure for RedHat that was functional. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wron

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
as an attack. Some ISPs will delete your account for doing that. In some states folks might even attempt to prosecute you. Or, the response could be as benign as their end detecting the portscan and blocking access from your machine. Know what you're doing before you po

Re: Tool to find out info about machine ?

2002-04-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
s that will do similar or identical things to these. As usual, there's more than one way to do it, and someone will most certainly think my way is wrong. These programs are a good start for you. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: Re: installing woody

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Noah Sombrero quotation: > > on a promise 66 card. Don't know why potato > thinks it is e. Is it possible that woody thinks it > is something else? dmesg | grep ^hd -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: Mozilla Mail

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
ons up to 0.9.8, I think). So set up an imap server, listening only on 127.0.0.1. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > And, in the context of using "ln", your point is? That question is unanswerable, because it contains a faulty assumption. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) Ther

Re: Re: Hard Discs and Virtual Memory ...

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Soul Computer quotation: > > I will word wrap manually by pressing . I > apologize for any problems Earthlink's Webmail may > have cuased everyone. Please configure it to do proper quoting. If it can't, complain to customer service. -- Shawn McMahon

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
email program with limited Internet-like functionality that, unfortunately, has some ability to inject mail into the Internet. IMNERHO. (And yes, I'm aware RFC-822 is a standard, and RFC-1521 isn't.) -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: ht

Re: how to create a link of another directory in home directory ...2

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Eric G. Miller quotation: > > Some might argue that hard links are a bad thing and should be > avoided. Others might point out that there is at least one hard link to EVERY file that appears in a directory listing. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of

Re: courier-imap and windows mail client

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
g a family member hooked on crack is evil. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgp1azbo6eE8w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lease line

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Oi Yan quotation: > > Anyone can explain to me the different between T3 and DS3? Yes; your telephone company. > and suggest the website to me about lease line Your telephone company's web site. Or Google. STFW. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's La

Re: USB in woody

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Joachim Fahnenmueller quotation: > > you will get more and better answers if you post in English. Or, alternately, post in German on the German list. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's m

Re: Memory strange behaviour

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
your system is doing less thrashing, hoist a beer to the Linux kernel folks and the Debian folks, and enjoy. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahon

Re: OT: MP3 streams sought

2002-04-28 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin martin f krafft quotation: > > so what i am really looking for is some MP3 broadcast station out > there which plays psychedelic and progressive rock from the sixties > and early seventies, maybe even a little new age. bowie, floyd, yes, STFW. -- S

Re: Memory strange behaviour

2002-04-27 Thread Shawn McMahon
..??? > Can someone enlighten me, why this thing happen? I can see that when I was > using > redhat, the swap is keep running. I can observe this from gkrellm. Now, when I > use potato, it is very seldom use swap. The most only 10%. What version of RedHat? With what ker

Re: [OT] Asus A7M266 motherboard and Debian

2002-04-27 Thread Shawn McMahon
sinine. If you think it's right to do, don't apologize; if you think it's wrong to do, don't do it. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smc

Re: xv on potato?

2002-04-27 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Mike Fontenot quotation: > > that he get it from potato. I can't find it on potato either. > Has it been removed from potato also? Is there any way to > get it in a debian package? STFW. Go to google, type in "xv debian", and hit "I'

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-27 Thread Shawn McMahon
emon. In fact, a restart option doesn't make sense UNLESS you're running as a daemon; otherwise, you'd just use start. He wants his daemon periodically killed and restarted, unless I misunderstood the email. A restart option is exactly the right thing to have. -- Shawn

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
ou. I recommend sending him either a patch, or sufficient inducements per hour. > BTW: Is there any way to hide arguments? More than one. Use a "here" document, for instance. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: leafnode & kupdated

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
I agree both of > those Window Managers suck, I'm partial to wmaker, icewm and xfce. GNOME isn't a window manager. On one of my boxes, I use icewm with GNOME. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There&

Re: How to speed up fetching mail

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
the -d option to make it a daemon. Combine both for parallel daemons. Don't forget to kill the daemons if you're using dial-on-demand, or set a long time period on -d, or they'll nail up your connection. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support:

Re: Machine not freeing Cached Memory?

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
s like a good thing to try. Especially since you can always boot back into your old kernel. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv |

Re: linux.debian.user newsgroup

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > Please *don't* Cc: me on list mail. He's using Pine. Good luck. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex,

Re: fetchmail daemon dies, won't restart

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
while, and see what your script is telling you. Sounds like your script isn't killing fetchmail on a "start". -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonf

Re: Woody with ext3, 2.4 kernel + custom install questions

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
HING is installed, you won't have any ports listening, because you'll have a blank hard drive. You can't say "when I installed RedHat (or Mandrake or Debian etc.) I told it to install nothing." It's nonsensical. Either you're misremembering what was said, or

Re: Command Line Listing?

2002-04-26 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Travis King quotation: > > If you could supply me with a list of commands for Linux, and how to start > the GUI > it would be greatly apreciated. http://www.debian.org/doc/ -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: Anyone using Jabber on Woody

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
r registration? Or are they seperate things? Perhaps you could post the log entries. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

Re: Newbie and scan attack

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
istration into an email? Pay somebody to do it for you, or expect to spend at least "days at it, learning". > >> Cc: me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Set the appropriate headers. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Richard A Nelson quotation: > > > | Bingo. > > Bzzt. wrong for sendmail >= 8.12.0 ! Oops. Glad to hear that. That will cure a lot of ills. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There'

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
screwed it up, or is the package broken? > (version 8.12.3-4) Dunno, I've never installed sendmail on a Debian system. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex

Re: sendmail half-works (more data)

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? Bingo. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody th

Re: replacement for ical?

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Michael Jinks quotation: > > Is there something in woody that will read ical data files, or, has > anybody managed to get ical to build on woody? STFW: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/223/2001/3/0/5458561/ -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of

Re: dns web configurator

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Francois Chenais quotation: > I'm looking for a web dns configurator. STFW. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=dns+config§ion=projects -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than on

Re: Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
aTex. :) A GUI for LaTeX? Who would have ever thought of such a thing? http://www.lyx.org -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

Re: newbie needs help w/partitioning

2002-04-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
es, there's a better way; use a boot manager such as lilo or grub to allow you to select either Windows or Linux from a boot-time menu. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
. 3) Use a non-ext-derived filesystem. 3b) Can articulate why they're doing so in a technical manner. > Gott-in-freakin'-himmel, are there any people with IQ over 40 on this list? Yes, but most of us aren't talking to you on this subject, since you left the path of r

Re: Partitioning question?

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > My question is, "Does it really make sense (i.e. is it worth the time > and maintenance effort) to make multiple partitions on a disk?" On mission-critical servers, yes. On home boxes and workstations, probably not.

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
y care less what you told somebody else about why there needs to be a way to do this, because there IS A WAY TO DO IT. Use it or get over it. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do

Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Dimitri Maziuk quotation: > > *Boggle* Which part of "USER SHOULD BE ABLE TO MARK PARTS OF > HIS SYSTEM AS ``MAINTAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FUCK WITH THIS > NO MATTER WHAT''" do you still not understand? man chattr -- Shawn McMahon|

Re: simple anon ftp server

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
t the only good solution. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpzYuCtVy9dm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: firewall / ipchains ?

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
mind that by doing this, you are UNDOING the seperation. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpeLJHxaydsr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-24 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > Do an "lsof | grep raw" and post what you find. > > tried that and no joy. You'll have to be root; sorry, should have mentioned that. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.ei

Re: Q's on backup to CD-R

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
th afio for making the backups to disk. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpwjB2B19Gt7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Re: Scwawcaac: I need a little more on apps available for Linux

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
ofessional-looking document and are more concerned with making good content than screwing around with formatting, use LaTeX or Lyx. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spm

Re: Support for wireless PCMCIA

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
that aren't supported Debian > packages. Convince Mark to create .debs for his software. A sufficient number of inducements per hour should do the trick. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
, it will. See the .sig. :-) I think lsof's output is prettier, but YMOV. :-) -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks

Re: $netstat -a

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > raw0 0 *:icmp *:* 7 > > raw0 0 *:tcp *:* 7 > Do an "lsof | grep raw" and post what you

Re: Internet Crashes

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Lenny Leblanc quotation: > > After about 12 hours the Internet decides to stop working. I can see no > traces of errors or mishaps in the syslog and not quite sure where to look > now. You don't by any chance have a routing daemon, such as routed or gated, running, do

Re: KMail/Mozilla & /var/mail

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
your text with "--". Two dashes at the beginning of a line customarily set off the signature or other "unimportant" text, and many of us configure our email programs to display that in a muted color, so as to make it less intrusive. It's a minor PITA if

Re: Apt-get Upgrade/Update question

2002-04-23 Thread Shawn McMahon
you're still taking a risk if you do. I do it all the time, haven't broken anything serious yet. BTW, after you do an "apt-get update", one way to find out what will be installed before you commit to it is "apt-get -s upgrade". The "-s" says "don&#x

Re: Building kernel-image with kpkg

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Grant Edwards quotation: > > > You're arbitrarily nuking things from the source tree. > > It's not my fault, somebody told me to! This is a test. You can restore those files by typing: dpkg -P `apt-cache pkgnames` -- Shawn McMahon

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
th walking out of my job for, because my management IS reasonable about assigning blame; when something goes wrong, I show that it wasn't on my end, and all is well. If it was, I show how I'm going to prevent it from happening again, and all is well. You have to work hard to ge

Re: Mozzila: inbox message disappearing

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
des, installations, and provide a consistent upgrade path from previous versions. . It can safely be removed with no ill effects. Task: desktop -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way

Re: Automated spam reporting?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > First, ricochet is pretty naive. It would be very helpful to specify > _only_ non-spoofed headers be responded to. This is difficult to do, spamcop does a pretty good job of it. It's not perfect, but it's pretty good.

Re: Adding kernel modules after install

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
it right now. At the very least, you want && instead of ; everywhere. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks yo

Re: MCA/PCI failure

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
or remove cards, even for PCI. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpu615q4MFpb.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automated spam reporting?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
So instead of looking for something like spamcop, use spamcop. It has the advantage of already having implemented list-detection, which saves you some more work. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's

Re: weird font style

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
erk owns a radio, too. The nerve of some people. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpT5cVXf9gv4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-cache

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
I don't want to start a "he did / they did" flame war on this, because there's more than one side to the story, but: http://www.lightlink.com/spacenka/fors/ Bottom line; assume they will not react well if you violate their policies. Better safe th

Re: weird font style

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Ilia Lobsanov quotation: > What do you make of this photo? http://home.nurey.net/debian/weird_font.JPG Well, if I print it out, I could make a hat, or a pterodactyl... -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1)

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
ot the ultimate authority; management is. I'm not quitting my job because of that, nor am I going to violate their policies and get fired because of it, unless you (or someone else) is going to offer me sufficient inducements per hour to do so. -- Shawn McMahon| McMaho

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
based on your lack of knowledge and experience on the subject. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgppdirkZNm9a.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-22 Thread Shawn McMahon
. For the uninitiated, they are necessary, even if only a per-box firewall, simply because you may not know HOW to secure every port on your box, and a default-deny firewall puts you in a less insecure position, requiring deliberate action to become less secure, as opposed to deliberate action t

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
s and 200,000 users, not counting internet customers. Or try it with an ISP, where you can't control the configuration on ANY of the users' computers. I've worked in both situations. Firewalls are a godsend. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux supp

Re: rh7.1 -> r2.2r5 (cd) or 2.2r6

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
he underlying kernel is 2.5.8, which I can bump down (or up) vastly > easier than I can replace all the userland bits of the distros. Is there a question in all of that, that I just can't see? If it's "can I install Debian without a CD", the answer is "yes, using a boot

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
The true test is if your system actually relays messages, not whether it rejects the attempt before receipt. There are other sites that will test these same "vulnerabilities", but only flag on them if a test email actually gets through. -- Shawn McMahon| Mc

Re: using unstable package on testing?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
00 I've been wondering something about this. Some people suggest the above, and others have suggested (and I am using): Add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "testing"; It appears to do the exact same thing as the longer method propose

Re: woody's "frozen-bubble" package

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Bob Underwood quotation: > > I believe frozen-bubble requires xfree86-v4, not v3. Nope; runs fine on my laptop, which is using v3. I wish it didn't; that damn game is worse than crack. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: ht

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
. This enables you to use "insecure" protocols behind your firewall, yet still have net-facing services such as email, with a higher degree of confidence that a security bug in the net-facing box won't compromise your entire network. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon

Re: Woody: "xhost +" on Local Machine not Working

2002-04-21 Thread Shawn McMahon
he other machine is not administrated by you, and either doesn't have ssh, or doesn't allow X forwarding in it's ssh config. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM

Re: Verifying file permissions

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Andy Saxena quotation: > > I was wondering if there is any way to verify the file permissions on > the files installed by debian packages. Depends; what do you mean by "verify"? -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.e

Re: view output of process while

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
you can't get a controlling terminal for it. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpmWsq3VjnnU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
he doesn't assume firewall == secure, of course. Apologies to Noah for calling him a troll. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
book after that, or the meeting continues and goes on to doing some useful work. Leave security to the professionals; or even to the amateurs. Just leave it to somebody that recognizes that it has value, OK? -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: htt

Re: my isp is being told *i* am broadcasting spam?

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
finition must start punching holes in your firewall. And, of course, opening a single hole in a firewall makes it completely useless. NOT. Go away, troll. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than on

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
customers, and have "you're not filtered" be one of the sales points. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody thinks your way is wrong pgpsKzCT9LZi8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cut-n-pasting links

2002-04-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
s additional editing > thus nullifying the benefits of cut-n-paste. Then the answer to your question is "no, you can't do that in Mozilla. Submit a feature request or a patch." -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com

Re: Upgrade to woody

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
int apt at the new distribution" doesn't mean "type the word testing in a randomly-chosen spot on the command line". It means "configure apt to point to the new distribution". -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.e

Re: Running Yahoo Messenger??

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Hall Stevenson quotation: > > FWIW, they automatically provide a "bulk mail" filter that catches most > unwanted e-mail. You don't honestly think that they filter out the spam sites to which they sell your information, do you? -- Shawn McMahon

Re: debian for embedded...original playstation

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
s not Debian, but it is Linux, and with that hardware, it oughta be possible to port Debian. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Some

Re: Emacs advice,what to install?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Henrik Enberg quotation: > > Nope, It is a way of life, the only religion worth following. You can spot an Emacs user by the brand-new tennis shoes poking out from under the purple sheet. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://

Re: ispell

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
...will output a list of available dictionary files, some of which might not be actual ispell dictionaries, but it'll tell you enough to proceed. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
als > etc. If you're paying $150 for an "old card" with no manuals, that better be old as in "six months old". You can get most of the previous-generation video cards for less than that WITH manuals, new in the box. -- Shawn McMahon| M

Re: Linux Universal Instant Messaging Client?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
s is a Debian list; Gaim will do everything you asked and runs on Debian. Don't be so picky. :-) -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmah

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